Left-wing whining joines Arab whining

Jacob Laksin answers the moronic left-wing whining about the trial and execution of the Butcher of Baghdad in an essay on today's Front Page Magazine:

Allegations that the trial was a slipshod affair, replete with procedural shortcuts designed to facilitate a speedy conviction, are difficult to square with the meticulous decision produced by the tribunal, its 298 single-spaced pages reportedly making it the longest on record. Overall, as Scharf has said, the tribunal did a "reasonable job against amazing challenges."

In this connection, it is worth noting that the Sunni backlash to the execution predicted by many observers has not, as of this writing, materialized. On the day of the execution, the number of bombings was consistent with the daily average -- too high, to be sure, but scarcely the disastrous spike in violence that had been anticipated.

Undeniably, the execution will not end the insurgency in Iraq. Nor will it smooth over the tribal, religious and cultural tensions that have heretofore made the country such infertile soil for orderly democratic government. But acknowledging that Hussein’s death is not a solution to all of Iraq’s problems does not require one to believe that it is not an answer to any of them.

As so rarely happens in history, a tyrant has been lawfully brought to justice. The least that people of conscience can do is to credit the Iraqi tribunal for this achievement. But it would not be going too far to applaud the efforts of the American troops who pulled Hussein from one hole in the ground so that the Iraqi people -- with the law on their side -- could direct him to another.

Of course no amount of reason will be able to put a dent in the Left's criticism. Because that criticism is based on a loathing of their own cultures which leads them to cling to the West's enemies, no matter how evil and murderous they are.